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dead person, she began again to wail
and lament, saying things that
would have moved a flintstone to
compassion; and thus she passed
another night, full of trouble,
weeping and wailing and scraping
herself. As soon as it was day the
Queen came to fetch her husband,
and left poor Betta in grief and
sorrow, and biting her hands with
vexation at the trick that had been
played her.